Reviews
Tales of Pangea: Gotrasawala Ensemble
The results of a meeting between Spanish composer and musician Ana Alcaide and Indonesian producer Franki Raden in the city...
Reviewed in issue October/2015
Chai Party
Alya Marquardt & The Shamash Ensemble
The first thing that grabs you on this album is the voice. Haunting and full of subtle modulation with an...
Reviewed in issue October/2015
Sur Sangeet
Dildar Hussain Khan & Abrar Hussain Khan
It's unlikely that readers will know the name Dildar Hussain Khan, although many will have heard him as the accompanying...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2015
Bangalore Dreams
After success with her dazzling acoustic Karnatic trio record, Call of Bangalore, Jyotsna Srikanth returns with a short album that...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2015
Soul of Bengal
The group presenting this charming collection of Bangladeshi music lives up to its name. It is indeed an all-star cast:...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2015
Home
There's an intimate warmth and bloom about this classical sitar album, which is largely thanks to Anoushka Shankar's sublime playing,...
Reviewed in issue Aug/Sep/2015
The Sounds of India; Improvisations; Three Ragas
This double album features three older releases by Ravi Shankar, the legendary sitar maestro who died in 2012. He took...
Reviewed in issue July/2015
Slide Guitar Ragas from Dusk Till Dawn
The Grammy-nominated pioneering slide-guitarist is back with another brilliant album, tracing an Indian classical journey from dusk till dawn. Beginning...
Reviewed in issue July/2015
Radio Vietnam
Belonging to Sublime Frequencies’ locale-specific radio collage series, Radio Vietnam is a ‘plunderphonics’ album: that's to say, the mashed-up audio...
Reviewed in issue July/2015
